ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures

Actually it's just occurred to me that my elegy for Morbs would be Dietrichs's line at the end of of TOE: "he was some kind of man... what does it matter what people say?", maybe that's why I put it high?

*hurls himself into fetid river*

I think using Comedy as a genre label maybe poses unique problems

I have just the thread for you: TOP 100 COMEDY FILMS OF ALL TIME NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD

Here's another bullet I took for you, pardner.

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46. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, 2001, Japan) [811.27 points; 11 votes]
S&S: 222 | TSPDT: 159 | BOXD: 10

MORBS SEZ: "I've only seen Spirited Away before [The Wind Rises]."

this might be controversial but I find his movies pretty hit-or-miss, tho obv the greats are outstanding
― Simon H., Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:19 PM

I might go for Miyazaki as best living director. He feels like the kind of artist who will stay timeless.
― jmm, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:21 PM

Miyazaki does nothing for me. I've tried many times. Probably should again. Never been able to make it thru any of his films.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:40 PM

I saw Spirited Away in the theater, and it was my first Miyazaki, so it's hard not to love it - especially since it felt like one of the first truly immersive animated films I'd seen yet. I didn't want it to end, and it felt like I had spent days inside it.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:19 PM

Am I the only one who's intensely annoyed by the music of Spirited Away?
― Turangalila, Sunday, August 9, 2009 7:43 PM

he's so careful w/ antagonists, at least in his more recent period. either they have good reasons or they're honest within fairy-tale-style rules or they don't exist at all. i love how spirited away is mostly a movie about a girl who gets a job: dealing with weird customers, bitching with co-workers after hours, hating the boss but eventually understanding she has a business to run.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, July 3, 2011 1:51 PM

If you try to describe the plot of Spirited Away to someone, they will think you're smoking crack.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Wednesday, July 2, 2003 8:37 PM

I love this film so much and fuiud

This isn't one of the three animated films I toplisted, but I'm glad we have animated representation, and this movie really does bang iirc (I was about...lol, 17)

(Disney excluded from all the above obv #rockism)

SPIRITED AWAY is a boring, bad movie.
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla)

It is so rich, so inventive, so beautiful and full of wonders

Yes. And makes no sense. It's bat shit in the best way.

Also: most poignant evocation of Edward Hopper ethos.

No way I was gunna actually vote for this cus it is PAINFUL, like literally hurts my heart to think about it. Family shit and such, can we not just move on?

if you mean personal bad connotations, sorry

if you're questioning it as a movie, not at all sorry

Afraid to think what Grave of the Fireflies would do to you.

uh yeah to both of those, too much shit that hurts my chest

Actually GOTF no, I love that it is heartwarming and I think I've forced it on my extended family at Christmas, which one am I thinking of, the one where they all die in a nuke, that one upsets me Watership Down/ Plague Dogs level

Dammit that is the one I was thinking fucksake

Barefoot Jin?

What's the one with the homeless thruple at Christmas? that was great

xps that'd be When The Wind Blows, although I haven't seen it. Watership Down, full disclosure, in my 25

Three Godfathers?

Nah the nuke one I was thinking of was Grave Of The Fireflies, but I'm an 80s kid, WTWB did indeed fuck me up but it was the BOOK, never saw the film cus fuck no

GOTF was Kobe firebombing, not nukes.

So for clarification:
Sprited Away: amazing shit, but it somehow hit me the wrong way re: my parents
Grave Of The Fireflies: also fucked me up, severely but I thought you were referring to
Three Godfathers: a lovely heartwarming Christmas film
Watership Down: greatest novel ever written but severely traumatic film
When The Wind Blows: read the comic as a small child, if you try to force any animated version on me I will stab you in the fucken face

Spirited Away is magic, yes

Basically NV my parents left me to run wild in the [checks up] THIRD MOST MOST POLLUTED TOWN IN THE WORLD and all my hair fell out, yeah I now I realise may have conflated every Ghibli film into one but yeah whatever my life now is horrific, but whatever that animated shit was where your parents are statutes and everything is terrible with ghosts and such yesh I'd rather not rewatch

(sorry I've been drinking today)

No worries buddy I'm mildly tripping myself

And sorry that shit happened

I don't want to fuck up this thread further but when sober I might start a thread about WHAT THE FUCK UP IS GOING ON WITH TARANTOAND CAN WE DO ANYTHING TO HELP BECAUSE MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS ARE DYING but this really isn't the platform, sorry everyone. anyway, films!

that Mad Max movie is such a pile o' fucking shite, watch who shot liberty valance followed by a random bunuel pic picked by a random number generator to honour Morbz!

I've always been skeptical of animation, but have been recently watching Miyazaki films and they are amazing. agree with the voters that My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away are his best

Inexplicably, Cinemark do a Studio Ghibli fest of sorts every year. So the only movie theater particularly close to where I live, which normally has little of interest, is going to be showing Totoro the first weekend in December, and I am thinking it will line up perfectly to when my kids (in the 5-11 age bracket) are going to be fully vaxxed so I can take them without qualms. Very excited.

that sounds really nice

Is that us done for the day?

out of 60 films, only two women directors have shown up so far

Yeah, no more titles today, five more tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2d00D7Gzg

I love the way Miyazaki movies unfold and let characters who start out seeming like villains shift and morph into more complex and ambiguous roles. Spirited Away has a lot of that. (As did Alice in Wonderland, its most obvious touchstone.)

Kevin, interesting you point to comedy and romance, two genres that I feel have been pretty much sidelined in current mainstream cinema - the death of the romantic comedy outside of outliers like The Big Sick and a few Netflix productions is something I've seen discussed a lot lately. And yeah, Barb & Starr rulz!

to Alfred, gotcha, all good. Like I said I'm pretty ignorant on the history of the critical conversation. I may be conflating the retrospective reevaluation of ppl like Hitchcock and Sirk and Capra as auteurs with the original Sanneh critique.

Sorry for the pedantry but my many years as an ILX lurker make it impossible for me to not "well, actually" that the Sanneh article was by no means the ground zero of this line of thought and was indeed received on here at the time as a considerable dumbing down of the concept.

out of 60 films, only two women directors have shown up so far

Not to be glib, but that puts us ahead of most "best films of all time" lists already.

At least I get Mad Max placing but The Graduate? Such a nothing film released a long time ago.

Watched about 80% of the list and the only one I'm bummed out about not having watched is Possession. I do want to see it at the cinema.

out of 60 films, only two women directors have shown up so far

I had 14 films by women on my list (out of 75), but they were all my quirkiest, most personal favorites. I don’t know what I was thinking! I made sure I didn’t help a single director get into the consensus, while maintaining the ability to say, “I had 14 films…” To be fair, that was my strategy for male directors also. Very stupid of me.

Nah, I think you did good. Tactical voting for representation might be a worthwhile strategy on a list with some cultural clout but on ILX vote for films by the female directors you love most for God's sake.

There won't be one experimental short film in the top 100. But there is Anime here.

Worry about that.

There is already one experimental short film in the top 100

One of the 2 women directors so far in fact

Too low.

Doesn't La Jetée fit that description also?

Not to me.

Comrade alphie's definition is purely films made by people that we would have to ring up and apologise to if their experimental short films made it into a "top 100 films ever"